Place: In person at Temple Isaiah and online To watch the commemoration on-line and for more information: /shoa23 Join the community in remembrance and solidarity.įirst, second and third generation speakers will share “Stories of Resilience.” ![]() Hosted by the San Francisco Jewish Family & Children’s Services Holocaust Center Please join us for a virtual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day and discussion with the co-creators of Ken Burns’ riveting PBS docuseries, The U.S. 80 years later, we are inspired by their heroic choices. On April 19, 1943, young Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against their oppressors. This FREE City of Berkeley program is developed in partnership with JFCS East Bay and JCC of the East Bay. Additional speakers will include Hannah Weisman, the new director of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, and Corinna Gould, tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan.Ī unique candle lighting ceremony by survivors and their family members will grace the program throughout as will music by Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, operatic countertenor, and by Eliana Pliskin Jacobs, Yiddish singer and performer, and violin accompanist Samuel Seifert. Miriam Tasini, has a remarkable story to tell of her odyssey of more than 20,000 miles to safety from the Nazi’s. Place: Temple Emanu-el, 1010 University Ave, San JoseĬity of Berkeley’s 20th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ![]() CHAIM 20, a mobile exhibit and teaching center for the San Francisco Bay Area, will be at Temple Emanu-el in San Jose from April 13 to 30. The California Holocaust Awareness and Action Interactive Museum presents CHAIM 20. He or she will have dealt with this many times before. ![]() Trust yourself.ĭon’t hesitate to talk to your rabbi for advice. He was “supposed” to be old enough to see it, but he wasn’t. My son lasted about 10 minutes in the Daniel section and then asked to leave. There was also an exhibit called, “Daniel’s Story.” It was about a Jewish boy and was said to be accessible to younger children. There were raised barriers so that young children couldn’t see some of the more difficult elements. Some years later when my family visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, my daughter was old enough to see the exhibits. I realized she couldn’t listen to this and found her own way to escape. She put her head in my lap and fell asleep. My daughter whispered to me, “Does she mean brother like Jesse?” (Her own brother’s name.) “Yes,” I replied. An elderly woman got up and spoke about the deaths of her brothers. After singing the children joined their parents in the congregation. They sang at our shul’s Yom Hashoah remembrance event. When my daughter was 9 to 11 she was in the children’s choir at our synagogue. ![]() The Jewish parenting online magazine, Kveller, has some good suggestions here. My own children dealt with hard concepts differently and therefore I taught them differently. One of the most powerful images is the freeways suddenly stopping as motorists pull over and step out of their cars. An air raid siren is sounded at 10am local time and all of Israel pauses for 2 minutes to remember those lost to us in the Holocaust. In Israel citizens are expected to observe two minutes of solemn reflection. There will be community observances around the world. This year Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day falls from the evening of Mon, Apr 17 to the evening of Tue, Apr 18, 2023. I think I want the untainted joy to last longer. I find it painful that Yom Hashoah comes so quickly after Passover. (Image is from the San Francisco Jewish Family & Children’s Holocaust Center)
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